The Rain Notebook

A few months ago I came across a great wedding photographer’s blog and found a post that I thought was very interesting. Melissa Jill wrote a list of 101 things to do in 1001 days. I thought this was a great idea but thought the list had to be overwhelming to make and even keep.

A few weeks ago I got to thinking that I should create this list and actually work on accomplishing it. After all I would have roughly 3 years to accomplish them. As I was creating my list, I got to searching on the internet and found a whole website about these lists. It is called the Day Zero Project. This website makes it easy for you to keep track of your items on the list and the day left to do everything.

So here is my list….

1. Learn to play the piano/keyboard
2. Get a new office made and set up for me
3. Travel to Paris, France
4. Open up a studio
5. Learn to drive stick shift perfectly
6. Create the photo book of my grandmother’s recipes
7. Improve the packaging of my products
8. Take a cruise
9. Upgrade my laptop
10. Buy Lightroom
11. Do a session on the beach
12. Get my food website up and running
13. Decorate the bedroom
14. Go in for singing lessons
15. Create a new photography goal every month to practice on for a year
16. Go to a photography workshop
17. Blog every day for a month
18. Go in for some kind of dancing lessons
19. Launch my boudoir website
20. Refine my wedding/photography and document workflow
21. Second shoot at a wedding of someone I admire
22. Get my press products line launched
23. Enter some photos in a print competition
24. Get a travel trailer and get it setup as guest house
25. Purchase a fisheye lens
26. Learn to grill meat
27. “Enjoy” the rain with my honey
28. Buy a house
29. Mentor a young photographer
30. Buy a shootsac bag
31. Color calibrate my monitors
32. Really truly brand everything about my business
33. Purchase reusable grocery bags and stop using plastic ones
34. Upgrade my camera to a newer better version
35. Document a day in my life through photographs
36. Make my own beer recipe
37. Read at least 1 book a month (0/33)
38. Upgrade my computer/editing system
39. Learn CSS and make my own website with it
40. Get a safe deposit box and fill it
41. Go see a movie in the theaters by myself
42. Buy a pool table
43. Create an entire book on my recipes
44. Go to PSI 7
45. Get a Canon 5D
46. Meet a famous blogger that I’m a fan of
47. Balance out my PH levels
48. Learn Lightroom software
49. Travel for a month straight
50. Shoot a wedding on another continent
51. Go to a comedy club
52. Draw something in wet cement
53. Watch all Best Picture nominees for the 2010 Oscars.
54. Read one book per month for 3 months to benefit my business
55. Get my Holiday Rentals up and running
56. Have a baby
57. Organize one room every month until everything is organized
58. Staff a PSI Basic
59. Learn to speak French fluently
60. Get my GED
61. Go to a Chargers game
62. Win a WPJA award
63. Play hooky one day from work and just hang out in my PJ’s (no I’ve never done this ONCE)
64. Decorate the bathroom
65. Stay at a luxury resort & go to the spa
66. Get a boudoir session done
67. Whiten my teeth
68. Excercise for 30 days straight
69. Have a picnic on the beach
70. Take pictures once a week of the “family” or our lives
71. Learn everything about the football game including rules
72. Make a font out of my handwriting
73. Get my belly button pierced
74. Have a mystery/scavenger hunt party
75. Get out of debt
76. Do a “black” vote for myself once a week
77. Learn to make designs in the froth of my coffee
78. Learn and live by the Secret
79. Invent something
80. Keep my car clean for a whole month
81. Create a book with quotes/pictures/ etc in it that describes me and who I am
82. Participate in Postcrossing.com (very cool site)
83. Wear a bikini out in public
84. Keep computer backed up and cleaned out, not allowing to fill up more then half
85. Write and memorize my RVP acceptance speech
86. Visit Venice, Italy
87. Start a one sentence journal and write in it every day for a year
88. Work on 10 projects on instructables.com
89. Write some wedding vows
90. Attend the midnight premiere of a movie
91. Go to a Cowboys game
92. Watch 26 movies I’ve never seen starting with each letter of the Alphabet
93. 2nd shoot weddings with 3 local photographers
94. Pay for the person behind me in a drive thru
95. Organize ALL of my iTunes songs
96. Create my true vision board
97. Create my own rules to live by
98. Put away $5 for each completed task – the total to be spent shopping at the end of my 1001 days
99. Influence a person to make a day zero list (101 in 1001 days list)
100. Make a new 101 list to do again
101. Throw a party at the end to celebrate all my goals being achieved

Make sure you check out my profile page on Day Zero, and you can follow my progress there. I will also be blogging about most if not all of the projects I complete.

Maybe you can help me complete my first item on my list (number 99) by creating your own 101 in 1001 days list. This is a great new and different way to do your New Years “resolution”.

Hope you all enjoy!!